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This isn’t the first time DeepMind has been able to learn a game and then teach itself to an extraordinary level of proficiency.

In fact the team had set itself the bold challenge that within 24 hours AlphaZero would learn Go, Chess and another Japanese board game Shogi and then it would convincingly defeat a world champion in each.

AlphaZero took eight hours to learn and then beat the world-champion at Go which was, well, itself.

It then took a mere two hours of self-training to beat the leading Shogi software called Elmo.

Now while this is all very impressive it should be pointed out that all of these games are in an extremely closed environment which means that its job is limited to the rules of the game.